| Source title | fol 60v: En esta primera parte deste motete esta añadido vn tiple/ y el tiple es en quinta como la obra pasada. ¶Primero grado. fol. 6ov [end of page]: En esta postrera parte no esta añadida ninguna boz por quitar difficultad. fol. 61 [end of page]: Este motete de inuiolata esta meior por qui que no por vn punto mas baxo. fol. 61v: Esta tercera parte sea de tañer co[n]forme al tie[m]po. Primero grado. Inviolata (+3ª pars O benigna) |
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| Title in contents | Inviolata en quinta a seys Josquin. |
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Music
Category intabulation
Genre motet
Fantasia type
Mode 5 or 6
Voices 6
Length (compases) 130
Vihuela
Tuning A + E
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/3
Lowest VI/1
Difficulty easy
Tempo medium
Song Text
Language
Vocal notation
Commentary
Intabulation for two vihuelas at the fifth of Josquin’s six-voice motet “Inviolata”. The rubric of the Vihuela mayor translates as “To the first part of this motet us added a treble voice, and the tuning is at the fifth as in the previous work. First grade. In the last part of the work no voice is added in order to make it less difficult. This third part has to be played at the indicated tempo First grade. This motet ‘Inviolat’ is best in this tuning and not a tone lower. This is the only known version of this piece to survive. There is no surviving polyphonic setting. A transcription by Willem Elders is in the New Josquin Edition, Motets on Non-Biblical texts, 4 (Utrecht, 2006).
Song Text
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
des Prez, Josquin. Werken van Josquin De Prés. Ed. A. Smijers. Amsterdam: Vereeniging voor Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis, 1922-1969.
Lowinsky, Edward (ed). The Medici Codex of 1518: a Choir-book of Motets Dedicated to Lorenzo Dei Medici, Duke of Urbino. Historical Intro, Etc. Monuments of Renaissance Music vol. 3-5. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1968.
des Prez, Josquin. New Josquin Edition. Ed. W. Elders, et al. Utrecht: Vereniging voor Nederlandse Museikgeschiedenis, 1987.